24The Year of the Horse was a good year for Chang Brothers. The company’s first air-conditioned cinema was built; “mainly because of my husband,” Ping overheard Ah-ku telling Miss Kok and other mahjong friends. Pleading the need to study for her coming ‘A’ Level exams, Ping stayed home with Kan Jieh and the baby, Kit-boy.
Pleased that Ping was not coming with them, Yoke Lan took Boy-boy’s hand and got into the car beside Chang, glad that she’d nipped in the bud whatever it was that went on in the fish shed that night. These days, she made it a point to accompany Chang to all his functions, a task she had neglected when she was pregnant. But no more. She had better look after her man. Who knew better than her that a man attending functions alone was prey for other women?
“Congratulations,
